Pick a case

[Himommies]

Should I get the cougar spike or the corsair spec alpha, I am using a Matx board and is playing to do a custom loop. If I save the money on the case I can get one of those delta high cfm fans, also I'm on a 400 dollar budget for case and water cooling lastly the side panel window doesn't really matter to me. 

[striker477]

Big price difference between the two. sounds like with your budget you might be better suited with the cougar but personally I think the corsair is a much more appealing aesthetics wise. 

[MaxBunny]

4 minutes ago, Himommies said:

Should I get the cougar spike or the corsair spec alpha

Cougar Spike for sure.

[asdf2061]

I'm pretty sure the Spec Alpha is made out of a hard plastic. I might be biased, but $10 more USD could land you an In Win 303, which has a thick SECC Steel chassis and a full tempered glass window.

[Himommies]

22 minutes ago, I_IHaveNoLife_l said:

I'm pretty sure the Spec Alpha is made out of a hard plastic. I might be biased, but $10 more USD could land you an In Win 303, which has a thick SECC Steel chassis and a full tempered glass window.

I'm not exactly going for a elegant and refined look so I already crossed of half of the cases on pc part picker

[DeChanimal]

In my opinion, I think the Define S is a great case even for watercooling. But to contribute to your 2 choices I will take the corsair(just my pet peeve on using smaller low end brand cases such as cougar). Also I don't find a point for a Delta fan when at the same price you can get a industrial Noctua.

[MasamotoTakeshi]

It depends on what you are doing with the case. Are you future proofing or looking for specific features? Because both cases will have their own benefits it will depend on what you need it for.

[Mello]

The Corsair Spec-Alpha has a lot of space for upgrading and airflow and you can control up to 4 fans from the controller in the front panel,

the power supply is in the downside with a filter that you can take off, 

no optical drive bays which helps with the airflow, a really cool looking case with 4 different colors.

 

The Cougar Spike is smaller if that's what you need, but that might be bad if you want to upgrade, has only 3 expansion slots,

no cable management and only 1 fan,

but you can put 2 optical drives.

 

Yes i'm kinda biased since I have The Corsair Spec-Alpha myself, but I would really recommend paying some more for something worth it.

Thanks for reading, hope I was helpful.